Gaston Thiery 1922-2013 "fresselines The Hollow Path" (crozant School Fresseline Creuse)

Gaston Thiery, emblematic painter of the so-called Crozant school. Oil on canvas signed and located on the back with artist's certificate, the hollow path, Fresseline, 1976. Painter born in Lille in 1922. After classical studies in France and Belgium, he entered the Beaux-Arts in a decoration workshop. In 1940, facing the war, he took refuge in Creuse in Fresselines. Gaston THIERY, landscape painter, considered the successor of the Crozant school, will see his works distributed in Europe, Japan, the United States and are today part of numerous public and private collections. He exhibited his landscape and nature painting in the largest Parisian galleries. From 1965, requested by Paul ANDRAUD, master weaver in Aubusson, he executed his first tapestry cartoons. This adventure will last 30 years and will see the creation of more than 100 cartoons. An accomplished artist, invested in the life of his village, he left his mark on the Creuse valley from 1940 to 2013. On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the exhibition "Souvenances" allows the public to discover or rediscover the immense work of Gaston THIERY "